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Cory Booker calls for reform in Newark Police Department

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker speaks during a 2012 press conference announcing the collaboration of the Newark Police Department and Secure Watch 24 to combat crime in Newark. The company provides police with access to their customer’s security camera feeds, as long as the property owner agrees to let detectives watch.
(Patti Sapone/The Star Ledger )

"Newark has come a long way from these serious decades-long problems shared by cities across the country, but not nearly far enough," Booker (D-N.J.) said in a statement.

"When I was mayor, we worked with the ACLU to implement reforms that set a national model for stop and frisk transparency, emphasized police-community relations, and even ended up calling for the federal assistance being announced today," he said.

Booker also praised the the city's officers.

"Our nation's cops have one of the toughest jobs in the world, and it's my hope that the Department of Justice's assistance with implementing further reforms in Newark will help the city's incredible officers do their job better and with greater safety," he said.